Ohio Scientists Promote Animal Nutrition South Of The Border WOOSTER, Ohio—Three animal sciences pro fessors with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) have made a differ ence for people in the Latin American food-animal industry. For the past eight years, Bill Weiss, Jeff Firkins, and Don Mahan have taught courses on dairy cattle and swine nutrition at the Escuela Centroameri cana de Ganaderia (EC AG), a livestock production technical institute based in the rural community of Atenas, Costa Rica. “These courses have exposed Latin American professionals to the latest animal production tech niques,” said Francisco Romero, ECAG general di rector. “The instructors have shown the highest level of knowledge and experience and have pro vided us with very useful tools that can be applied to production in the tropics.” WHITEWASHING with ADVANTAGE FARM WHITE The yearly, one-week courses taught by Weiss, Firkins and Mahan are organized by the Latin American Nutrition Center for Continuing Educa tion (LANCE), an initiative of the American Soy bean Association funded through the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service. “My experience with the people who attend the course has been excellent,” said Mahan, who teaches about swine nutrition and management practices. “They are highly motivated and eager to learn. They are also very friendly, intelligent and easy to get to know.” Md. & Va. Co-Op Acquires Maola (Continued from Page 42) be more efficient, generate more profits, and become more competitive than as single plant oper ations. Together, Marva Maid and Maola with strong local brand names will be able to more effi ciently serve customers over a larger area. Maryland & Virginia’s combined fluid milk pro cessing business will have over $l6O million in total sales and nearly 675 employees. G r FEED & SUPPLY, INC. Manheim, PA The Best Quality Dairy Feeds Full Line of Dairy Feed Ingredients For A Healthier Herd SALT - Livestock, Water Softener Block or Pallets • Whole Cotton Seed • Toasted Flaked Beans • Dical • 48% Soybean Meal • Blood Meal • Selenium • Light Com Distillers • Corn Gluten Meal • Bicarb • Soy Hulls • Dry Molasses • Magox • Corn • EnerGll™ • Yeast • Barley • Megalac™ • RenPlus • Oats • Feed Calcium • Liquid Molasses • Bran • Bio fos • Fish Meal • Enertia • Mono fos • Flo-Bond HEALTHIER LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS • Aureomycm 4G cr • Cattle dust bags • Aureo S-700 cr • Electrolytes • Terramycm 2G cr • Today & tomorrows • Safe guard wormers mastitis tr • Aspirin Bolus • Fly sprays • Bovatec • Rodentcide Bags or Bulk in most items - You Mix or We Mix Store: 717-665-5001 Mill: 717-665-6122 800-648-2968
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